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TOUGHER than the rest

1 Which southern African people have nothing but contempt for sheep, believing that if one of the Dlamini (the dominant Royal clan) eats a black sheep he will go insane?

2 With a greenish-olive or silvery-grey body and a white band on its forehead, what two-worded creature lives in woodland, savannah and high bush, and has leopards, eagles and humans as predators?

3 Afar and Bench are languages in

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